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The GAR Hall was the only public library in Aurora until a Carnegie library opened across the street in 1903. The hall was the meeting place of the Aurora G.A.R. Post No. 20, which was one of 779 posts in the Department of Illinois. [2] Any honorably discharged Union veteran of the war could join the group.
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The west side district was the homestead for wealthy Aurora citizens throughout its history. Local pharmacist David Hurd owned a Second Empire home, constructed in 1856 and now recognized as an Aurora Landmark. Aurora mayor Fred O. White designed a Queen Anne residence that was completed after his death by his wife.
July 31, 2003 (Chicago: Cook: Magnum opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen.: 11: Arthur H. Compton House: Arthur H. Compton House: May 11, 1976 (Chicago: Cook: Home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
Aurora is a city in northeastern Illinois, United States, located along the Fox River. The population was 180,542 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the second-most populous city in Illinois, after Chicago, [5] and the 144th-most populous city in the US. [6] Aurora is the largest city in Illinois that is not the county seat of any county that it ...
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, United States Albumen print [s 1] Steinway Hall: 2 December 1873 Unknown New York City, United States Halftone print Steinway Hall on East 14th Street, between University Place and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The first halftone print of a photo used in a periodical in the United States. [s 2]
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